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...It is customisable with different border and colour options. sirimiri.co.uk Ladies Pond stools by Sella Concept, £2,500+VAT Part of a collection that references the hues of Hampstead’s Ladies’ Pond....
...Alex BarkerWe were greeted by the founder, Tim Stokely, and taken to a conference room overlooking a pond. Tim StokelyMy first podcast. Alex BarkerIs it? Tim StokelyYeah, yeah....
...A chalk stream muddles along through trout ponds, footbridges and fords. Red-brick cottages line narrow streets; wisteria escapes over garden walls....
...This very polished property south-west of town (formerly Sunrise Springs), with its three recognisable brick-rimmed tubs sitting astride a natural pond in a cottonwood grove, could as easily be a resort...
...Part intro to Russian literature, part musings on craft, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is all pleasure....
...The pool designated for families convincingly mimics a shallow pond, bordered with boulders and reeds and traversed by a footbridge; that it’s quintessentially resort-y doesn’t detract from its beauty....
...The two villas on the 6,400 sq metre plot, laid out with ponds and fountains, have teak and oak floors and sloping tiled roofs....
...His agency is also selling a five-bedroom home on High Pond Road for $1.25m. Yet the market remains fickle....
...Another favourite with film crews is the city of Wells in Somerset, whose Gothic cathedral and Bishop’s Palace are used for a funeral scene....
...The papyrus swamps turn an especially violent green, and a dull brown bird called the red bishop changes colour to become a living flame....
...Most of Bishops Avenue was built in the past 40 years....
...Bishop Trevor was outbid for the portrait of Jacob’s son Benjamin, which sold for £21, but immediately commissioned a copy from Arthur Pond (which cost as much as the original), and substantially redesigned...
...The 2,500 sq metre property includes a lily pond, a separate staff building and a pool....
...Knight Frank has had Heath Hall, a 27,000 sq ft, 14-bedroom Edwardian mansion on The Bishops Avenue, with a price of £65m, on its books for more than a year....
...Like Bishop’s Pond and Pond Crossing, Watchcase was initially planned before the 2008 financial crisis, only to be pulled from the market....
...They are spending tens of millions of euros renovating once dilapidated 19th-century buildings or building freestanding condominiums....
...What A four-bedroom 3,700 sq ft apartment in the Metropolitan Tower Condominium, a 77-storey residential skyscraper built in 1987....
...One show home near the golf course includes a series of koi carp ponds, an array of Burmese antiques, and specially commissioned art by one of the country’s top painters....
...Kite-fliers congregate at the top of Parliament Hill; walkers take in panoramic views over the city; wild-swimmers gather at the bathing ponds; and bird-watchers go in search of the ring-necked parakeets...
...Facilities include cinema, library, huge aquarium, indoor pond, sauna, pool, entertainment deck with barbecue, multiple zoned A/C and pontoon....
...Make your own bog for it with a pond liner. ● Bamboo: lots to choose from – many are elegant with fine textured leaves that rustle in the breeze....
...At the other end of downtown stands the red-brick Clock Tower, an abandoned 19th-century mill converted into upmarket, environmentally friendly condominiums....
...“Where they once grew celery, now they grow condominiums,” says Hitchie. And so to Buena Vista Terrace, a hidden gem of a street built at the turn of the century....
...The birds and their successive broods, the great crested newts in the old ponds, the traffic-free road and the valley unsullied with lights or noise gave out the answer....
...At Henry David Thoreau’s famed Walden Pond, scientists counted at least 30 species of wild plants that were flowering ahead of schedule....
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